Windows Live Skydrive Rocks!
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It truly does and I can't believe I ignored it for so long: 1. Free Storage space upto 25 GB: More than any one else is offering as far as I can recall. 2. You can edit Microsoft Office documents with ease as in Google Docs.
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I love it. They ought to include a Sky Drive account with every copy of Windows. Apps could save data to the cloud, rather than the disk, and voila, your data is accessible from work, home, mobile, etc.
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Judah HimangoJudah Himango wrote:
Apps could save data to the cloud
Yeah, no security risk there! I'd love to export my most sensitive files to the world.
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I love it. They ought to include a Sky Drive account with every copy of Windows. Apps could save data to the cloud, rather than the disk, and voila, your data is accessible from work, home, mobile, etc.
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Judah HimangoJudah Himango wrote:
They ought to include a Sky Drive account with every copy of Windows.
The EU would probably sue them...
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Judah Himango wrote:
Apps could save data to the cloud
Yeah, no security risk there! I'd love to export my most sensitive files to the world.
Richard Andrew x64 wrote:
Yeah, no security risk there! I'd love to export my most sensitive files to the world.
Haha, I bet their data centers have armed gaurds, or at the very least some sort of security people. I can't say the same for my house.
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It truly does and I can't believe I ignored it for so long: 1. Free Storage space upto 25 GB: More than any one else is offering as far as I can recall. 2. You can edit Microsoft Office documents with ease as in Google Docs.
Absolutely. I've been using it since it was first announced. In fact, I used it exclusively to store the content for my book so that I (and my tech editor) could access it from anywhere. I have had very few problems with it, most which were of my own doing. The only issue of significance is that if you use a removable (USB drive, flash, etc.) drive as the storage folder on your local machine it sometimes gets confused if you remove that drive and attach it to another machine. (Doing this, by the way, probably isn't the best idea when it comes to synchronizing with SkyDrive anyway since it does contradict with how SkyDrive is supposed to work.)
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Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote:
2. You can edit Microsoft Office documents with ease as in Google Docs.
Even better - it integrates very nicely with the desktop version of MS Office. For MS Office 2007 you need to download an add-on to enable this feature, and in Offce 2010 it is built in.
With Office 2010 it also has built in synchronization, etc. so multiple people can edit at the same time.
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I have 2 main problems with it. 1) There is no easy way to sync files. 2) At work, the public folder and some of the options pages are blocked as "social networking" sites. As such I use dropbox[^]. Ok, it's only 2gb, but syncing is so easy. You have a client app that silently syncs up your Dropbox folder with the server, so you can treat it just like working on your PC, and you know everything you do is getting backed up in the cloud. If such a thing existed for Skydrive I'd be more inclined to try it out. (Oh, and the Dropbox sync client supports Linux & Mac too)
Simon
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Judah Himango wrote:
Apps could save data to the cloud
Yeah, no security risk there! I'd love to export my most sensitive files to the world.
That's what people said about email.
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Judah Himango -
It truly does and I can't believe I ignored it for so long: 1. Free Storage space upto 25 GB: More than any one else is offering as far as I can recall. 2. You can edit Microsoft Office documents with ease as in Google Docs.
I think Live Mesh[^] rockes even more - like skydrive but with synchronisation
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Kevin McFarlane wrote:
Superb app. Well-engineered.
It's the complete seemlessness that I love. I just tried out windows live mesh[^] (ok, still in beta), which has similar claims to dropbox. But the sync app just isn't as seemless, it just seems to get in your way more. What makes dropbox so good is that if you didn't know it was running, you would almost never notice, it provides just enough info so you know when files are synced. Mesh, has popups and windows and info all over the place, but for some reason makes it impossible to find out if a file has finished syncing or not without logging into the web app and checking if it's there. Oh, and the killer feature dropbox has that will prevent me from using mesh seriously - Linux support.
Kevin McFarlane wrote:
But you get more space for each recommendation don't you?
Only if you have friends. :laugh: I have just 1 so I'm on just 2.25gb.
Simon
Live Mesh i haven't quite found a good use for. However Live Sync I have been using since shortly after it was originally released as "FolderShare" - love it. I'm going to have to see about SkyDrive now. The one thing that I have found trips up every online-offering of Office-based document creation/editing, is a password-protected Excel file. I have one i use daily, and sync it w/ Live Sync, but so far haven't found an online service that plays nice w/ it so i can just edit it online in one place. If anybody knows of such a service let me know.
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Judah Himango wrote:
They ought to include a Sky Drive account with every copy of Windows
Yes! That will be cool. I thought it had an API, but I can't find it.
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It truly does and I can't believe I ignored it for so long: 1. Free Storage space upto 25 GB: More than any one else is offering as far as I can recall. 2. You can edit Microsoft Office documents with ease as in Google Docs.
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I love it. They ought to include a Sky Drive account with every copy of Windows. Apps could save data to the cloud, rather than the disk, and voila, your data is accessible from work, home, mobile, etc.
Religiously blogging on the intarwebs since the early 21st century: Kineti L'Tziyon
Judah HimangoThe IT Nazi's usually block online storage for corporate networks. Also online apps , like google apps, instant messaging, skype, message boards, generally anything they can not control even though these would save the company time and money.
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The IT Nazi's usually block online storage for corporate networks. Also online apps , like google apps, instant messaging, skype, message boards, generally anything they can not control even though these would save the company time and money.
True, but if Windows had it built-in, and apps started using it, the Nazis would be forced to relent! :-)
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Judah Himango -
It truly does and I can't believe I ignored it for so long: 1. Free Storage space upto 25 GB: More than any one else is offering as far as I can recall. 2. You can edit Microsoft Office documents with ease as in Google Docs.
Have u tried Adrive? http://adrive.com 50 GB of free storage Still Skydrive is the 2nd best
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The IT Nazi's usually block online storage for corporate networks. Also online apps , like google apps, instant messaging, skype, message boards, generally anything they can not control even though these would save the company time and money.
So, are you Chinese or Iranian? :-D Just a joke, easy plz:)
A Chinese VC++ programmer
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It truly does and I can't believe I ignored it for so long: 1. Free Storage space upto 25 GB: More than any one else is offering as far as I can recall. 2. You can edit Microsoft Office documents with ease as in Google Docs.
I agree that it rocks and I use it from time to time. The latest thing I used it for was to scan in a bunch of prom photos for an old friend, upload them to a newly created skydrive folder and add my friend as the only other person (other than myself) that can view/edit the contents of that folder. This is a great thing to have available. The only drawback though is the 50meg file size limit. At times I've wanted to upload 7zip or other compressed archives that are 100 megs or maybe a bit more but ... out of luck. Maybe someday down the road there will be a free service that allows for such file sizes. The main reason is to rip a CD at a high bit rate (eg: 320) and archive the songs into zip or 7zip folder then upload that archive to skydrive (with security so only a certain person or persons can see it) so that it can be downloaded somewhere else. Since you can't email the archive due to the file size I figured skydrive would be the best bet but .. well, options are limited at 50 megs per file.
